Utagawa Kuniyoshi Cat Collection

A fan and a fan with cats painted by Utagawa Kuniyoshi. Kuniyoshi, a cat lover, replaced the inns appearing in the Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido with jiguchi (puns) related to cats in this caricature.

Examples of jiguchi (puns) are...
Nihonbashi = "Nihon dashi" and two bonito flakes
Totsuka = "hatuka", I found a hatuka rat
We hope you will try to find them too.

Also, in the Doraemon X Ibasen collaboration fan (uchiwa), the futuristic robot "Doraemon" is with "Nobita-kun",Doraemon, a robot of the future, and Nobita-kun will visit famous places of the Edo landscape painted by Hiroshige Utagawa.

Hiroshige's original Edo fan of Tonegawa isClick herealso available for sale.

53 Stages of the Tokaido: Hiroshige's Nihonbashi as an Edo fanhereas an Edo-style fan.